I am also wondering if we should extend the discussion/voting period now that more of us are here less. I was really looking for this kind of discussion on the voting thread, but a) I wasn't as available to ask questions earlier and b) People were not on it as much as when I proposed in the past. I really believe in the proposer crafting the vote after careful consideration of the discussion, and I feel like there was a perspective of people who actually read and discuss comments left out a bit.

I was out of the country, or else I'd have raised it then. Poor timing on my part.

Also, I the intention of the comic spoiler policy was really hard to word (and probably harder since I don't do comics). I think what people want white fonted is the stuff that has to do with the current story. So, for example, I am not finished with Daredevil and I have never read the comics. What I would not want is IF the Daredevil story was clearly based on a specific comic, and you could tell where it was going by reading the coming, I wouldn't want to know that, say, the story ends with Karen, Foggy, and Matt dead! But if the story on the teevee is clearly varying from the comic, I don't care. So it is more of a judgement thing, but I was not sure how to word that.

And that's the problem, right? Even the things based on a specific comic are only loosely based, because the world and world building is different. Sometimes, you keep iconic scenes like "Who the hell is Bucky?" but the context is different. Civil War is going to be massively different in the MCU than it was in the comics, because the events that triggered it in the comics are impossible in the MCU.

It might be more of an issue with streaming than with movies, but still doesn't address how to handle it, if at all, outside of the MCU thread.

Just popping in to add my YES PLEASE to "Infinite Chrises" for the thread title.

And FWIW, I don't mind comics spoilers, because they usually don't really spoil anything in the MCU. I also don't mind whitefont everywhere, so.

I am thinking that we are all good people with discretion we trust each other-- we don't have a lot of newcomers-- perhaps the comics policy should be that people discussing comics should use their discretion to not spoil people who do not read the comics? Which is sort of what we do anyway?

I don't feel strongly about the comics-as-spoiler question at all, but Sophia sums up what I do want, I think.

It's not a bright line, but the issue is not exactly a problem that needs solving. Muddling through has been fine so far.

So in Other Media, the policy is:

Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.

I would be fine making this a blanket spoiler policy for the board regarding comics.

I feel like board culture mostly leans towards spoilerfonting upcoming HSQ moments so that the comically inclined can watch the non-readers capslock in amazement, but I don't think we need to codify that.

I don't feel a burning need to address comics differently than we have been. As someone who doesn't follow comics much I tend to find the bits of discussion I've paid attention to more informative than spoilery. My $ .02.

I don't read the comics but I would be quite surprised if anyone who follows the MCU hasn't seen other comics points elsewhere in the wild. Heaven knows it's all over the other boards I read. I'm find with no spoiler font on comics.

I'm find with no spoiler font on comics.

Me too. Especially since there's no guarantee that what happened in the comics will happen that way, or at all, in the MCU.

Seriously, what happens in MCU can be radically different from the comics, especially with characters that have been in print for 40 years or more: origin stories change, plot points differ by 180 degrees, it's more like hearing about an AU of what's occurring on screen. I'm more or less current with the main Marvel comics right now and I find them so confusing, anyway, with the way they keep rebooting and pulling in older story lines to regurgitate them that it makes no difference if I know the comics or not. I treat the TV/movie versions as just one more take on where they started from in the Marvel universe.